On the day Wen Xian gave birth to a daughter, Yinreng also sent someone to visit the princess's mansion.
The first time he saw the little girl was on her third day of baptism.
The little girl was well-nourished during pregnancy, so she wasn't as wrinkled as other babies.
However, he was unable to meet Wen Xian, and only heard from his wife that she was in good condition.
Yinzhen, who was busy outside, also took the opportunity to attend the third-day bathing banquet to return to the capital. After meeting his niece, he went straight to Shun Anyan.
Before Shun Anyan and Wen Xian got married, he sent people to keep an eye on Shun Anyan for quite some time. At that time, he didn't find anything wrong with Shun Anyan, but now he just felt that his vision of people was extremely poor.
As a result, Shun Anyan's old injuries had not healed yet and he got new injuries. He stayed at home for more than half a month before his injuries were healed.
Since Wen Xian's confinement period was in June, Yinreng knew that this was a difficult time, so he sent people to keep an eye on the movements in the princess's mansion.
As a result, neither Shun Anyan nor the people from the Tong family dared to make any noise while Wen Xian was in confinement. As things had gotten to this point, they had realized that Wen Xian was not as easy to control as they had imagined.
Moreover, Wen Xian didn't care about Shun Anyan at all. After she heard that Shun Anyan had a mistress, she didn't want to bother with Shun Anyan at all. This was obvious...
Although they don't want to admit it, the facts are there and they have to admit it.
Because of this incident, Ye Keshu scolded Shun Anyan several times, saying that he was useless and couldn't even please a woman.
After Shun Anyan recovered, he went directly to the Ministry of Industry and became a person in charge of customs duties.
Because the reconstruction of the outer city is still ongoing, the tariffs have not yet been able to enter the national treasury.
So Shun Anyan had to face Yinreng from time to time. He was angry and resentful, but he had no way to deal with it.
As for tampering with tariffs and causing trouble for Yinreng, he really didn't dare.
Because the accounts submitted to him by Yinzhen were transparent, he was just a transferor -
In fact, his predecessor was not only a transferee, but also took care of the accounting tasks. However, in his place, he only had to act as a mascot.
Shun Anyan also knew that the prince and Yinzhen were working together to suppress him, but he couldn't even find a place to complain.
The only reason he was able to retain his position as the head of the Ministry of Revenue was because Mafa lost face and begged the emperor desperately. Otherwise, he might have been demoted to a penniless position.
Shun Anyan was depressed, but he didn't dare to keep a mistress anymore, so he could only drink to drown his sorrows after finishing his shift.
He lived in the princess's mansion, and Wen Xian treated him as if he were air and ignored him at all. However, after Tong Guowei knew about this, he gave him some advice.
Shun Anyan understood the hidden meaning in Tong Guowei's words, and his depressed mood quickly disappeared.
He hated the prince and Wen Xian.
He dreamed of revenge, but he also knew that he could not take revenge on these two people on his own. But just because he couldn't do it didn't mean others couldn't.
From this day on, Shun Anyan no longer lived in a daze all day long.
After the summer came, traces of pirates soon appeared outside Tianjin Port again.
Kangxi issued an imperial decree, ordering Yinzhi to lead troops to encircle and suppress the pirates, and to eliminate them completely at all costs.
But there were too many unknowns at sea. Yinzhi led his team to search the sea for half a month, but did not even find any pirates.
After the army was exhausted after drifting on the sea for half a month and temporarily stationed in Weihaiwei, the pirates began to intercept merchant ships at sea again.
After Yinreng found out, he felt something was wrong.
It's simple, the pirates' timing is just too accurate.
This time, Yinzhi brought a lot of people, a full two thousand people, and ten warships.
But these ten warships scattered on the vast ocean are just a few objects not much bigger than sesame seeds. Even if the Japanese have telescopes on their ships, the Qing equipment will only be better than theirs. There is no reason why the Japanese can detect the Qing warships in advance, but Yinzhi and his men cannot detect the Japanese.
Yinreng suspected that there were Japanese spies in the army.
On the day he received the news, Yinreng sent a letter to Yinzhi.
He had no interest in reminding Kangxi, but he also knew that the letters he sent would eventually be seen by Kangxi in advance.
The facts were indeed as Yinreng had expected.
Kangxi would intercept any letter leaving Yuqing Palace in advance.
After seeing that Yinreng had some suspicions about the people in the army, Kangxi attached great importance to this matter.
Under Yinreng's influence, his impression of the Japanese pirates was also extremely negative.
Thinking that Yinreng had been at odds with him for nearly two months because of Wen Xian's matter, and now he was ignoring him even on such an important matter, and would rather pass the message to the eldest brother than tell him, Kangxi felt uncomfortable.
He felt that Yinreng did not understand him.
The Tong family is his in-laws. As long as it does not violate his bottom line, he is willing to support the Tong family. Is there anything wrong with that?
Why doesn't that brat understand him at all?
Kangxi sighed deeply and then issued an edict to Yuqing Palace.
He decided to let Yinreng go out to investigate the pirate incident.
It can also be considered... a kind of concession.
When Yinreng learned that the old man was willing to let him leave the capital, he was so shocked that he didn't react for a long time.
Given Kangxi's perverted desire for control, would he really let him leave the capital so easily?
Yinreng didn't dare to believe it, but after pinching himself, the pain in his leg made him realize that he was not dreaming.
He was afraid that Kangxi would regret it, so on the second day after receiving the imperial edict, he could not wait to leave Kyoto with two hundred guards.
Yinreng knew that these two hundred guards were sent by Kangxi to monitor him, but he didn't care.
He would only feel scared if Kangxi didn't make any arrangements for anyone.
In addition to the two hundred guards, the deputy director of the Imperial Observatory also went with them.
The climate at sea is changeable, and Kangxi was really afraid that Yinreng would get into an accident.
He left in a hurry and did not prepare food and fodder for two hundred men. Yinreng was wealthy and brought a lot of money with him just to buy food and fodder on the road.
With Kangxi in the capital, he even felt uncomfortable breathing.
Yinreng planned to go directly to Tianjin Port, and then asked Yinzhen to arrange a boat to Weihaiwei by sea.
Yinzhen's shipyard has built another treasure ship and a lot of small warships in the past few months. It should be no problem for him to get two this time.
Because someone was sent to deliver the message to Yinzhen in advance, Yinzhen had equipped the warships he requested before the team arrived.
After Yinreng arrived, he only rested in Yinzhen's mansion for one night and left in a hurry the next day.
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